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slowsider wrote: Sun Mar 13, 2022 12:13 pm
Horse wrote: Sun Mar 13, 2022 11:03 am
Yambo wrote: Sun Mar 13, 2022 9:55 am Isn't a camel a horse designed by a committee? :D
If you had to travel through a desert, which would you choose?
A horse with no name.
20 Camels.

And a Zippo.
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JackyJoll wrote: Sun Mar 13, 2022 1:11 pm
slowsider wrote: Sun Mar 13, 2022 12:13 pm
Horse wrote: Sun Mar 13, 2022 11:03 am

If you had to travel through a desert, which would you choose?
A horse with no name.
20 Camels.

And a Zippo.
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Fuck. This is bollox. One more nail in the UK.

If it's legal, let it be.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxf ... e-60749093
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the authority will ensure that food provided at all council catered events and meetings is "entirely plant-based,
I'd be hitting up Hickory's on Just Eat right fast come lunch time for a full rack of ribs and a side of corn.
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Yorick wrote: Tue Mar 15, 2022 11:17 pm Fuck. This is bollox. One more nail in the UK.

If it's legal, let it be.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxf ... e-60749093
A vegan-only food policy branded "utter madness" by TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has been adopted by a council.

It means only plant-based meals will be served at Oxfordshire County Council events and vegan options will be on school menus.
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But council leader Liz Leffman said: "We're not going to pin people down and force them to eat vegan food, I can promise you that... the important thing here is that we're leading by example."
So if vegan food is the only option but you don't want to eat it, then the only alternative is not eating. Ah well, I guess that'll save the planet.
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It's a ploy to stop people opposing their policies attending council events.
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They probably mean vegetarian not vegan.
Having a veggie option at school meals :thumbup:
Council events? Who cares and who goes to them for the food?

It's 'twitter outrage' again. :roll:
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Yorick wrote: Tue Mar 15, 2022 11:17 pm Fuck. This is bollox. One more nail in the UK.

If it's legal, let it be.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxf ... e-60749093
Did some idiot vote a Green Party councillor in?

What are County Council events anyway?
It means only plant-based meals will be served at Oxfordshire County Council events
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Phil Mitchell, bad boy in real life too!

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Count Steer wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 8:59 am They probably mean vegetarian not vegan.
Having a veggie option at school meals :thumbup:
Council events? Who cares and who goes to them for the food?

It's 'twitter outrage' again. :roll:
They did mean vegan but it is only for the 12 council meetings a year so as you say, "twitter outrage".
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JackyJoll wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 9:10 am What are County Council events anyway?
Unimportant.
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JamJar wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 9:57 am
Count Steer wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 8:59 am They probably mean vegetarian not vegan.
Having a veggie option at school meals :thumbup:
Council events? Who cares and who goes to them for the food?

It's 'twitter outrage' again. :roll:
They did mean vegan but it is only for the 12 council meetings a year so as you say, "twitter outrage".
I've an idea. Why don't the attendees take sandwiches and a flask of tea/coffee if they really need to eat during the event? Then the council taxpayers won't be funding the food that the councillors would be buying for themselves to eat at home.
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Bike Breaker wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 11:09 am
JamJar wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 9:57 am
Count Steer wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 8:59 am They probably mean vegetarian not vegan.
Having a veggie option at school meals :thumbup:
Council events? Who cares and who goes to them for the food?

It's 'twitter outrage' again. :roll:
They did mean vegan but it is only for the 12 council meetings a year so as you say, "twitter outrage".
I've an idea. Why don't the attendees take sandwiches and a flask of tea/coffee if they really need to eat during the event? Then the council taxpayers won't be funding the food that the councillors would be buying for themselves to eat at home.
Sandwiches? I'd take a fish pie and a microwave to heat it up with.
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If you want food to be as carbon neutral as possible then eat stuff produced locally and farmed with being low carbon in mind, this can include meat. A radical idea, but it might just work.

It's a long time since I was at school eating locally sourced food, lovingly cooked in the school kitchen. I believe kitchens and cooks were done away with a long time ago, being replaced with freezers and microwaves. Is this still the case?
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Our local school still has a kitchen but they make it difficult to buy dinners, they prefer selling expensive snacks.
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All of the schools i work in still have kitchens and all serve meat with a veggie and halal option.

TBH some of the food is half decent, some isn't.

They also all have the option of a salad bar now too which seems quite popular.

The local council here had shit food in their canteen. I remember attending many meetings at the Council House and used to bring my own packed lunch knowing the cooked food would be pretty dire. However, i attended a meeting many years ago in a big converted house turned council office with the director of I.T and they had a fucking 3 course meal on offer, twas chicken casserole if i remember correctly, i had seconds....:)

How the other half live eh, on our tax money!
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Greenman wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 12:20 pm All of the schools i work in still have kitchens and all serve meat with a veggie and halal option.

TBH some of the food is half decent, some isn't.

They also all have the option of a salad bar now too which seems quite popular.

The local council here had shit food in their canteen. I remember attending many meetings at the Council House and used to bring my own packed lunch knowing the cooked food would be pretty dire. However, i attended a meeting many years ago in a big converted house turned council office with the director of I.T and they had a fucking 3 course meal on offer, twas chicken casserole if i remember correctly, i had seconds....:)

How the other half live eh, on our tax money!
Technically you live on our tax money because all the schools are tax funded.
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JamJar wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 1:08 pm
Greenman wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 12:20 pm All of the schools i work in still have kitchens and all serve meat with a veggie and halal option.

TBH some of the food is half decent, some isn't.

They also all have the option of a salad bar now too which seems quite popular.

The local council here had shit food in their canteen. I remember attending many meetings at the Council House and used to bring my own packed lunch knowing the cooked food would be pretty dire. However, i attended a meeting many years ago in a big converted house turned council office with the director of I.T and they had a fucking 3 course meal on offer, twas chicken casserole if i remember correctly, i had seconds....:)

How the other half live eh, on our tax money!
Technically you live on our tax money because all the schools are tax funded.
True, i should of gone back for thirds!
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Greenman wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 1:28 pm
True, i should of gone back for thirds!
Should have brought a doggie bag.